Insurance and Climate Change column A new article directly blames climate change for rising U.S. insurance rates. While the article mulls the various and numerous reasons for rising rates, it calls out what the author sees as a “common thread” that ties in rising rates and a world where […] Click here to view original […]
Listen to story summary Most Americans can expect wetter winters in the future due to global warming, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois Chicago scientist. Using climate models to investigate how winter precipitation in the United States will change by the end of the […] Click here to view original
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There’s a saying that to get someone to pay attention to climate change, put a price on it. Rising insurance costs are doing just that. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski) Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance premiums rise and their coverage shrinks. Nationwide, premiums […] Click here to view original
Using EPA funds, Colorado will deploy cutting edge technology for detecting methane emissions from its 80 landfills, making it a leader among states. Landfill, Denver, Colorado (Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Landfills are the third-largest source of methane, a super-pollutant greenhouse gas that traps 80 times more […] Click here to view original
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The Elbe river in Dresden, Germany, pictured on 16 September at 19 feet above its normal level after four days of the heaviest rain ever recorded in central Europe that a report out Wednesday says was made much more likely by human-induced climate change. File photo by Filip Singer/EPA-EFE […] Click here to view original
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Devastating wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 (one pictured) were made at least 30 percent more likely by human-caused climate change. Scientists have similarly tied many other natural disasters to global warming. Climate change is making extreme weather worse. It tripled the risk of Hurricane Harvey’s record […] Click here to view original
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